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anti-intellectualism is good when the left does it and bad when the right does it, you see

also probably unintentional but “weird monied elite with strange facial features doesn’t care about the Real Common People (you know, us)” is a reactionary cliche

very tired of pretending that dismissing modern economics is somehow more reasonable than dismissing vaccines. if you’re not an expert, you don’t get to pick and choose parts of a field to believe! you have no way to tell between legitimate and illegitimate results in that field!

Stick to programming

programmers are the most pseudo intellectuals on the planet. being really good at writing code doesn't make that person good at literally anything else.

None of these idiots are particularly good at writing code. Also writing code is a very easy thing to do. They’re all gonna have a tantrum in my mentions for saying this, but my credentials are better than theirs.

software development isn't the most difficult thing in the world but it isn't easy either. it very much depends on the complexity of the software and how well that software needs to perform at scale.

It actually is easy, at least relative to comparable roles in STEM. As an example, getting a computer science degree is less difficult/rigorous than getting almost any other STEM degree at every level from bachelors to PhD.

I feel like easy-difficult flattens it, but can’t explain how.

i guess if we are comparing it to other stem fields then maybe? idk i rarely think about it in those terms. but if we are comparing software developers to accountants for instance? i think that software development is much more difficult. or basically any business degree lol

Indeed, and lowering the barrier to entry is a good thing. That it comes at the price of a qualitative escalation in class society’s access to your personhood is merely an escalation of the struggle, which I welcome. We’re going to win, there’s nothing to be afraid of except complacency.